Awards and Honors

2016

Congratulations to:

Department of Geology

During the Society of Eploration Geophysicists (SEG) annual meeting in Dallas this year (October 16-21, 2016), the K-State Geology SEG Chapter received Ridge Level status, in recognition of our geophysical activities and contributions in the area of exploration seismology. More details about this bump in our status are available on the department's home page.

Adam Lane

Adam received the prestigeous O.R. Grawe award from the Association of Missouri Geologists! The honor is awarded annually to outstanding upperclassmen in geology in the state of Missouri. We are thankful he decided to move west for graduate school! More details about his award are here: http://www.missourigeologists.org/Grawe.htm

Jacob Clayton, Austin Noll and Kyle Marquart

Each student received a generous scholarship from the Kansas Geological Foundation! Congrats!

Ian Andree, Katie Garth, and Grant Zweifelhofer

Each student received GSA Graduate Research Awards from Council of Geological Society of America, a highly competitive student research grant program!

Colleen Gura and Michelle Berube

Each student received an award for their presentations in the K-State GRAD Forum! Outstanding!

Austin was selected to participate in the Student Education Program jointly offered by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and ExxonMobil!

Keithan Martin

Keithan received a graduate student research grant from the Kansas Geological Foundation!

Aria Linares

Aria was awarded graduate student research grants from the Association for Women Geoscientists Osage Chapter and the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts!

Dr. Saugata Datta

Saugata is a recipient of a Big 12 faculty fellowship to develop an experimental hydrogeology program with faculty at Texas A&M!

Dr. Charles (Jack) Oviatt

Jack was elected to be a Geological Society of America Fellow! He was nominated for his many decades of exemplary published work on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, chronology, geomorphology, and paleolimnology of Lake Bonneville.

Michael Tummons

Michael is a recipient of a 2015 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program award! Funds for the grant were generously donated by the Barrett family. He will use the funding to support his geomicrobiology research.

Anna Maynard, Michael Tummons

Each student successfully applied for research funding through the Geological Society of America!

Jasper Hobbs

Jasper won a prize for best oral presentation at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM! Nice work!

Dr. Brueseke

Matt, along with collaborators at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Bucknell University, were awarded a research grant from NSF to study the Wrangell Volcanic Belt in Alaska!

Jasper received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Award for his igneous petrology research!

Anna Downey

Anna received a research travel award from K-State Arts & Sciences that she will use to present research findings at a Geological Society of America regional meeting!

Brien Wilson, Logan Kelly

Both students were recognized with awards for their presentations in the K-State Research Forum!

Dr. Kempton and Dr. Datta

Pamela and Saugata received a K-State International Incentives award to support an international workshop! The workshop will explore benefits of bringing the critical zone observatory paradigm to research at Konza Prairie.